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Heirloom flowers with their exquisite hues, graceful forms and hardy constitutions are often easier to grow, more fragrant and more diverse than modern hybrid forms. They are open-pollinated, which means bees and other insects pollinate them, and unlike hybrids, you will find many of your annual favorites self-sow, creating new gardens full of promise each spring. Heirloom plants include many antique cultivars that have been cutting propagated since the middle to late 1800s.

Its other name, Rock Bells, refers to its being found on woodland ledge tops in the East. A true delight of spring, the elegant dangling blossoms have curving spurs holding sweet nectar that sustains hummingbirds and hawk moths early in the year when few other flowers are blooming. Unlike modern hybrids, they are resistant to leaf miners and are self-seeding, adding an increasing flash of flame to partly-shaded woodland gardens and edges.

These beauties have steel blue spherical flower heads that are bee and butterfly magnets! Statuesque, it adds a pleasing contrast to summer blooming coneflowers in all hues. Easy care in well-drained, even gritty soils.

This variety of Helen's Flower has lovely coppery-red daisy blooms that bloom for a long time in late summer and fall, adding just the right contrast to violet Asters and Agastache Black Adder in moist, well-drained soil. A stalwart of northern gardens it is an easy-care choice that attracts bees and butterflies to the cone centers. Deadhead to prolong bloom, or shear after bloom and divide every four years or so.

This showy native flower is easy to grow and makes the transition from its native stream habitat to the humus enriched garden bed seamlessly. A short-lived perennial with late summer blooming spires of sparkling red flowers that readily self-sows in hospitable areas. An essential hummingbird garden plant.

Double red campions were grown as early as 1614. In fact, they became all the rage and then dropped into obscurity, seemingly lost until now. This Blooms of Bressingham selection is sterile, so no crowd of little ones where they are not wanted and the carnation-like blooms last for a long time. Summer bloom.